But surely, touts can't get tickets themselves before they go on sale ... and seeing as tickets are limited to 4 per person, i don't see how these scroungers are doing what they're doing.
call me naive, but i don't think the rest of the dates are going to be such a desperate scramble. when i went to the bridlington show in 2004 i saw the advert in the NME about a week after tickets had gone on sale. i originally phoned up for blackpool, which was sold out but then the woman said there were tickets left for bridlington. i got 2, no trouble.
plus, i didn't want tickets for the london show today, but when i finally emerged out of bed this morning, i checked the seetickets website to see how fast they'd sold ... the time was 11.42am GMT, and all three dates were still availiable. why did people have so much trouble getting them?